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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
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An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
Jane Austen
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Our scars make us know that our past was for real...
Jane Austen -
My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson’s. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. K., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me - 'A pleasing looking young woman' - that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!
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I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane Austen -
What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.
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He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him - goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.
Jane Austen
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My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen -
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen -
Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
Jane Austen -
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
Jane Austen -
I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.
Jane Austen
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
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I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.
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I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.
Jane Austen -
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Jane Austen -
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
Jane Austen -
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart...
Jane Austen
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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.
Jane Austen -
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
Jane Austen -
'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
Jane Austen -
It was in this reign that Joan of Arc reigned and made such a row among the English.
Jane Austen